Need for (C++20) Contiguous Range

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On Friday, 9 October 2020 at 15:14:19 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> I guess it in some cases would be technically possible to 
> emulate fixed stride with a recast to a slice of a struct with 
> padding before and after the element you want.
>
> But not very clean.
>
> Microsoft's experimental gsl::span implementation did support 
> strides, but I don't think that is possible with the std::span 
> that ended up in the standard.  (C++ span is similar to D 
> slices)

This thread makes me happy that I don't need to meddle with 
modern C++. In order to use modern C++ you need to become some 
kind of botanist in order to keep track of all the primitives in 
C++. Just like in the vegetable kingdom, you might discover new 
primitives that you didn't know and new primitives seem to cross 
breed all the time creating new ones.